Vladivostok, Russia

Vladivostok, Russia

Russian servicemen march during the Victory Day parade in Moscow's Red Square.

Credit: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters

Vladivostok, Russia

A Russian serviceman aboard an armored personnel carrier salutes next to the blue-white-red tricolor flag of Crimea, during the Victory Day parade in Moscow's Red Square.

Since a pro-Russian president was ousted in Ukraine in an uprising in February, Russian President Vladimir Putin has overturned decades of post-Cold War diplomacy by proclaiming the right to send troops to Ukraine and seizing and annexing Crimea.